43() forth he would never, in one kind or other, have any commerce at all with them; and indeed it was a resolution ·he would oftener repeate then any other he had, telling us, that be was convinc'd there was a serpentine seed in them. Yctt he had many apprehensions of the rash hot-headed spiritts of many of our party, and feares that their pride and sclfe-conccit of their owne abillitics, would againe bring us to confusion, if ever they should have the reines againe in thei r bands; and therefore he would bid us advise his sonne, if ever we liv'd to see a change, and would himselfe advise him not to fall in with the first, how faire soevcr their pretences were; but to waite to see how their practises suited them: for he would say, that a hotspirited people would first get up and put all into. confusion, and then a sober party must settle things; and lH~ would say, let my sonne stay to fall in with these. He foresaw that the courses that the king and his party tooke to establis!1 themselves would be thei·l' ruine, and would say, that whenever the king had an .annie it wou1d be his destruction.' Once when his wife was lamenting his co~ldition, having saycl many things to comfort her, he told her he could not have bene without this affliction, for if he had flourish' cl while all the people of God were corrected, he should ha:ve fear'cl he had not bene accounted among his children, as he had not shared their Jott. Then would he with thankfulnesse repeate the kind and gentle dealings oj' the Lord att all times toward him, and erect a firme and mighty hope upon it, and wonderfully encourage he r to beare it patiently, not only by words, but by his ~wne .admirable example. 'I 1.:; it permissible to extend this prediction to the time when Jam~s tlie Second mustered his army near Salisbury, and in thei r Ulmost gener<tl defection received his irrevocable doom? lf it is, it will appear a very signal instance of fores ight. The king then reigning , Charles If. never made but one, and that a very sho1·t-lived attempt to raise n.n army, which was speedily di sbanded.
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